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As a companion volume to "The Christian thinking in the twentieth the general editor and amended
com-
Nett Testament of the Jerusalem century two slogans have been where necessary to ensure
the Jewish National Fund and the
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ancient
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"The Old Testament of the Jeru-
or deeper the initial drafts were made from —
salem Bible. - just issued by and approfondimento,
Doubb.tday, is one of the great con- ing of theological thought. This the Hebrew or Greek and simul-
tributions to the Bible libraries double program must be for the taneously compared with the
and will be valued among the fin- Bible, too. Its first part can be French when queStions of variant
est acquisitions by Bible students carried out by translating into the reading or interpretation arose.•'
and those who specialize in gath- language we use today. its second Produced by Christian scholars,
part by providing notes which are a word that reflects the dedication
ering Bible texts.
One of the nation's most emin- neither sectarian nor superficial. of Bible scholars to inspired stu-
"This twofold need has long been dies, — Die old 'testament of the •
ent authorities on Bible studies.
criticism and literary commen- appreciated. and strong action was Jerusalem Bible - is among the
taries, Prof. Ilarry Orlinsky of taken in France when, under the most significant additions to Bible
llebrew Union College-Jewish In- influence of the late Pere Chifflot. literature and studies of our time. •
stitute of Religion,' commented Editions du Cerf, appealed to the P. S.
Dominican Biblical School in
upon the new work: "All in all
the 'Jerusalem Bible' with its ex- Jerusalem to meet it. This led to
planatory -notes, maps and other the production of separate fasci-
aids, is a first-class version that cules with a full textual critical
any student of the Bible may use apparatus for the individual books
of the Bible, and with extensive
tt ith profit. -
Under the general editorship notes. Subsequently, in 1956, a one-
of Alexander Jones, of Christ's volume edition appeared which
College, Liverpool, who was came to be known popuarly as La ,
assisted by a number of emin- Bible de Jerusalem: a careful sys-
ent scholars, the new work is tem of cross-reference enabled
thorough, provides not only com- this edition to include all the in-
plete texts and informative formation from the fascicules
maps, but is so well annoated as which could be useful to the
to make it a scriptural text that thoughtful reader or to the stu-
will prove to be a major guide dent. The Jerusalem Bible is its
equivalent. The introduc-
to Bible teachers and studentS
tions and notes are a direct trans- I
and to lay readers.
lation from the French, though re-
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There is an interesting prefa-
tory note on the Greek Bible—
Septuagint — and the books ap.
pearing in it are listed.
With minor revisions, the notes ,
and introductions in this volume
are the same as those that ap-
peared in "La Bible de Jerusalem"
of the Les Editions du Cerf, Paris,
the 1961 : one-volume edition. The
publisheri of the English text ex-
press a debt by noting that "the
English text of the Bible itself,
though translated from the ancient
texts, owes a large debt to the
work of the many scholars who
collaborated to produce 'La Bible
de Jerusalem'."
Dr. Jones' editorial foreward
contains added explanatory facts
that are worth noting. He states:
"The form and nature of this
edition of the Holy Bible have
been determined by two of the
principal .dangers facing the Chris-
tian religion today. The first is the
reduction of Christianity to the
status of a relic — affectionately
regarded, it is true, but consider-
ed irrelevant to our times. The
second is its rejection as a mytho-
logy, born and cherished in emo-
tion with nothing at all to say to
the mind. What threatens the
mother threatens her two children
even more seriously: I mean
Christianity's adopted child, which
is the Old Test a merit. and her na-
tural child, which is the New. The
Christian faith. after all, has been
able without betrayal to adjust it-
self to the needs of succeeding
centuries and decades. The Bible,
on the other hand, is of its nature
a written charter guaranteed (as
Christians believe) by the spirit
of God, crystallized in antiquity,
never to be changed—and what is
crystallized may be thought by
some to be fossilized. Now for
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Baptists Dedicate Forest
explains the He
brew year, gives the Babylonian NAZARETH — A group of fifty
and Macedonian names for the Baptists from West Germany, led
various solar months. notes the by Pastor Emmanuel Goetze, re-
annual feats mentioned in the cently planted the first trees in a
Bible. 10,000-tree forest in the hills of
Monetary equivalents in relation Nazareth. The forest was dedicated
to Greek money, distances, capa- in honor of the Baptist "work
cities and weights are given in the groups" who volunteer for service
section on measures and money. in kibutzim in Israel.
The chronological table covers all
the eras in the complete Old Tes-
tament collective work.
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respect. The pages are in single
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There are cross-references to re- made from the French. In the case
lated passages. The index of Bible of a few books the initial draft
themes, the chronological table, ' was made from the French and
measures and money tables and was then compared word for word
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